I haven’t particularly run across any philosophy explicitly making the connection from the correspondence theory of truth to “There are causal processes producing map-territory correspondences” to “You have to look at things in order to draw accurate maps of them, and this is a general rule...”
Trying to include mainstream academia other than philosophy, and going off your blog post “The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition”, it seems the idea of the general rule that you have to look at and interact with things to form accurate beliefs about them was largely due to Leo Szilard in his 1939 paper “On the Decrease in Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings” which analyzed Maxwell’s demon thought experiment and introduced the Szilard engine and the entropy cost of gaining information. You gave a more Bayesian analysis than Szilard in that post, possibly going off Jaynes’ work in statistical mechanics, like his 1957 papers “Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics” parts one and two, which are the earliest mention of Liouville’s theorem I can find in that context. Does Pearl have anything to throw in the mix, like a fancy rule about concluding a past causal interaction when you see corresponding maps and cities?
Trying to include mainstream academia other than philosophy, and going off your blog post “The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition”, it seems the idea of the general rule that you have to look at and interact with things to form accurate beliefs about them was largely due to Leo Szilard in his 1939 paper “On the Decrease in Entropy in a Thermodynamic System by the Intervention of Intelligent Beings” which analyzed Maxwell’s demon thought experiment and introduced the Szilard engine and the entropy cost of gaining information. You gave a more Bayesian analysis than Szilard in that post, possibly going off Jaynes’ work in statistical mechanics, like his 1957 papers “Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics” parts one and two, which are the earliest mention of Liouville’s theorem I can find in that context. Does Pearl have anything to throw in the mix, like a fancy rule about concluding a past causal interaction when you see corresponding maps and cities?